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The Sambor Hydropower Dam Alternatives Assessment was conducted by an international team of experts directed by the Natural Heritage Institute (NHI) under a formal agreement...

Press Release: [San Francisco, CA, April 2018] The Mekong River in Southeast Asia is the 8th largest river in the world, traversing eight countries with some 60 million people....

ĐBSCL là vùng tận cùng phía nam của Việt Nam với diện tích 40.000 km2, dân số 17.56 triệu người năm 2017, vùng chiếm 18% GDP của nước, 90% sản lượng gạo xuất khẩu, 70% sản lượn...

Hồ sơ quốc gia này (http://countryadaptationprofiles.gfdrr.org) là một phần của loạt tóm tắt về quốc gia ưu tiên do Tổ chức Toàn cầu về Giảm và Giảm nhẹ Thiên tai (GFDRR) đưa ra...

Các vành đai rừng ngập mặn có vai trò rất quan trọng trong việc giảm thiểu tác động của thiên tai ở các vùng ven biển. Tuy nhiên, ba thập kỷ vừa qua, dưới sức ép của sự gia tăng...

The National Green Growth Roadmap envisions a combination of objectives for economic growth and development, human well‐being, and environmental quality, which will promote the...

The Pacific operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) cover 14 developing member countries (DMCs). These countries have established national policies and institutions to...

Infrastructure is essential for development. This publication presents the highlights of a report on the current condition of developing Asia’s infrastructure—defined here as...

In 2009, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the ADB Institute projected infrastructure needs for developing Asia from 2010 to 2020 in Infrastructure for a Seamless Asia...

The Asia and Pacific region is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Unabated warming could significantly undo previous achievements of economic development and...

Cambodia recognises the need for respecting the principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in particular the principle of ‘common but...

This Second National Communication has been prepared to fulfill Cambodia’s commitments to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It contains the...

June 5th marks the annual World Environment Day, a time to reflect on the importance of protecting the environment. In September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted 17...

This report moves beyond asset and production losses and focuses instead on how natural disasters affect people’s well-being. Here, natural disaster risk and losses are measured...

These examples from the Greater Mekong Subregion demonstrate approaches of immediate relevance for other towns and regions throughout Asia with extensive coastlines, riverine...

The Asia-Pacific region as a whole has had considerable success with the MDGs, particularly in reducing levels of poverty. Nevertheless, the region is off track when it comes to...

The impacts of climate change on people's livelihoods have been widely documented. It is expected that climate and environmental change will hamper poverty reduction, or even...

Báo cáo đề cập đến thực trạng, nguyên nhân của thoái hóa đất và hoang mạc hóa; các giải pháp sống chung với hạn hán và hoang mạc hóa; tiến trình thoái hoá đất và hoang mạc hoá t...

During the past 20 years, Thailand witnessed droughts of varying intensity which put pressure on farming activities. Since the water scarcity problem has placed agricultural...

The annual local mean sea level (MSL) at 13 tide gauge stations bordering the Gulf of Thailand in Thai waters was used to investigate the apparent sea-level rise over the last...